While economic offences against the arrested godman Sarathi Baba alias Santosh Roul and his adopted son Satyam are mounting by the day, so are the allegations of sexual exploitations of women against the senior Roul (46) have started pouring in.
An unmarried girl from Kendrapara on Thursday landed up at the police headquarters here along with her mother bringing allegations of sex, sleaze and loot against the godman and by the time this report was prepared, the crime branch police are recording the statements of the mother-daughter duo under section 161 of CrPC, sources said.
Similarly, two married women had earlier brought similar charges against the godman claiming that they were forced by their respective spouses to get intimate with the godman. One of them has even recorded her statements under oath before a judicial magistrate in Kendrapara. It is believed that the crime branch police would take up all these cases for a comprehensive investigation.
It is alleged that in the name of religion and claiming to have possessed clairvoyance, the godman was attracting women towards him through hypnotism and exploiting them sexually with the help of his aides and agents. All those victims, who earlier feared to speak out under duress, are now gathering courage to vent their ire after the godman was arrested.
Arrested son sent to jail
Meanwhile, the godman’s adopted son Satyam (20), who was brought here from Mumbai and arrested on Wednesday, was sent to jail on Thursday after he was produced in a local court here. The court of SDJM allowing the crime branch police to take Satyam on remand for three days from Friday, remanded him in judicial custody. Satyam was absconding ever since the public outcry against the godman erupted earlier this month.
Satyam was taken to the Choudwar circle jail on the outskirts of the city, where the godman is cooling his heels after he was arrested on August 7. Jail sources said the son is lodged in an isolated cell adjacent to the cell of his father and the father-son duo had a brief emotional meeting before they were separated.
